A Chinese woman nearly died from an overdose of sleeping pills: her son angered her when she was doing homework, and she drank more sleeping pills than recommended, AsiaOne reported. 

"Xu and her husband were constantly concerned over his education. As such, the two signed him up for multiple supplementary and tuition classes and took it upon themselves to coach him further at night. It was during one such coaching session last Friday (Dec 13) that saw Xu losing her patience. Despite explaining one math question for over half an hour, her son still failed to understand how to solve it," the source noted. Xu decided to take sleeping pills to calm down, and drank 7 pills at once - she was afraid that otherwise the medicine would not work. At first she really calmed down, but soon she became dizzy and her general condition worsened.

The woman was hospitalized and was induced to vomit, Sin Chew Daily reported.

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